A toilet once owned by John Lennon has gone on display at the Liverpool Beatles Museum on Mathew Street.
The blue and white porcelain loo from Tittenhurst Park, the home of Lennon and Yoko Ono from 1969 to 1971, was unveiled this week.
The exhibit has been loaned indefinitely to the museum by a man who purchased the loo at auction in 1989 for £1,000 after the Tittenhurst Park Estate was bought by Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.
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He said that the loo had been “gathering dust” and contacted the museum to ask if they would like to display it.
Roag Best, owner of the museum and brother of original Beatles drummer Pete, said at the reveal: “Everything we do we try and do differently… we try and think outside the box, so we thought why not?”
Coincidentally, the reveal occurred on the 42nd anniversary of Lennon’s death, about which Roag said: “This item isn’t one I thought of doing on the day of John’s passing, it was only with a colleague of mine saying to me ‘Why are you worried? He’d love it!’ that I thought, okay I’m gonna take your word for it, we’ll do it”.
Two toilets were sold at auction from the 71-acre home, which was sold to Ringo Starr after Lennon and Ono moved to New York in 1971. The twin to the porcelain loo in Mathew Street was sold at auction four years ago for £15,000.
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